Kelly Fischer
Hopeful, practical counseling for families and life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kelly
Kelly Fischer is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with 26 years of experience. She uses practical, down-to-earth conversations to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. Her manner is friendly and interactive, and she involves clients in decisions about what to focus on in therapy.
Kelly draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered work to create clear, achievable goals. Sessions mix talk, skill-building, and short exercises tailored to each person's situation.
Background and approach
She aims for straightforward plans so progress is easy to track. Her background includes work in outpatient treatment, residential programs, and forensic settings, where she has supported people facing a range of life changes and coping needs. She also has experience with autism and with clients who have cognitive delays.
Kelly pays attention to practical life concerns such as family stress, parenting struggles, career strain, and caregiver fatigue. She also addresses issues like addictions, eating and mood disorders, chronic illness, and aging-related challenges in her work. During sessions she listens with respect and sensitivity, then helps identify steps that feel doable.
The emphasis is on collaboration, so clients know what they are working toward and why. Kelly’s goal is to help people feel more capable managing the next steps in life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kelly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered methods to guide online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. It is practical and skill oriented, with exercises clients practice between sessions.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and understanding. The therapist offers empathic support and works collaboratively so goals reflect what matters most to the client. This approach fits well when someone needs validation and clear guidance on next steps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Kelly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try. Clients and the therapist make decisions together and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, support people who travel, and allow frequent check-ins when needed. The focus remains on practical strategies and collaborative problem solving, whether meeting by video or messaging.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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